Bremerton, WA Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
2,763 Google reviews across 9 car washes in Bremerton. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 9
- Chains
- 4
- lead: 76 (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.41★
- Damage rate
- 0.8%
- 2.0× below MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 44% of classified
- Median single wash
- $13
- range $13–$13
- Median unlimited
- $22.99/mo
- cheapest $22.99/mo at Shur-Kleen Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 44,531
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 17,658
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 4,948
- 2.6× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.7
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 9 car wash locations operated by 4 chains and 3 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.41★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 2,763 Google reviews, 508 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
9 car wash locations in Bremerton, WA · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
No single structural signal jumps out for Bremerton — it's a mid-shape car wash market. 9 locations across 4 chains and 3 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Headline numbers sit near US-market norms: rating 4.41★, damage 0.8%, cancel friction 33.3%. Staff is the brightest aspect signal (0.91/+1). 2,763 Google reviews drive the analysis, 508 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 1 of 10 Bremerton locations with menus available: median single car wash $13 (range $13–$13), median unlimited membership $22.99/month (range $22.99–$22.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $22.99/mo at Shur-Kleen Car Wash (Basic).
See the best-rated car washes in Bremerton, WA
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Bremerton, WA?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Bremerton, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 1 of 10 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (10% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Bremerton | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shur-Kleen Car Wash Basic | $22.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Bremerton | ||
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| 1 | Shur-Kleen Car Wash Basic | $13 |
Pricing scraped from operator websites where published; the WashIndex AI calling agent rings up locations that don’t publish menus online to capture pricing directly.
About Bremerton, WA
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What kinds of car washes does Bremerton have?
Format counts below split Bremerton's 9 car wash locations by operating concept. Each format serves a different customer occasion — express tunnels for throughput, full-service for staffed convenience, detail shops for hand-finished work — and the rating column lets you read whether each format is meeting its own expectations here.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.95★ (4 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 4.00★ (2 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 4 | 44.4% | 724 | 4.95 | 0.82% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 3 | 33.3% | 1,262 | 4.35 | 1.01% | 33.3% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 22.2% | 777 | 4.00 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Bremerton car washes?
Each ZIP in Bremerton is joined to IRS Statistics-of-Income (tax year 2022) and to the per-location Google rating dataset. The scatter below sizes dots by review volume and colors them by format.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 9 qualifying locations: 0.12 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $80K AGI/return, 4.49★.
Car wash count and quality by income tier
Blue bars: location count per tier. Orange tick marks: average Google rating (same y-axis).
| Income tier (mean AGI/return) | ZIPs | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Top Format |
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| Under $50K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $50K – $75K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $75K – $100K | 2 | 10 | 2,763 | 4.41 | Detail Shop (5) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top-tier 0 sites, 0.00★ avg; bottom-tier 0 sites, 0.00★. Across Bremerton's 9 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Bremerton car washes?
4 chains alongside 3 independents make up Bremerton's car wash supply. The chain rank below shows the multi-location operators' position; the per-location detail near the bottom of the page captures the independent layer.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | 76 | 2 | 777 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Brown Bear Car Wash | 2 | 621 | 4.39 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Shur-Kleen Car Wash | 1 | 641 | 4.30 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Top Notch Tint & Detail + | 1 | 442 | 5.00 | 0.63% | — | 0.63% |
What do customers love and complain about at Bremerton car washes?
Reading the aspect grid: numbers above 0.3 are strong positives; numbers below -0.1 indicate meaningful friction; in between is mixed signal. staff is the brightest spot here. equipment reliability is the pain point.
Where are the 9 car washes in Bremerton, WA?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Bremerton market is captured in the underlying dataset; the table below shows the highest-review-volume sites for at-a-glance comparison. Each row shows operator, address, format, chain affiliation, rating, review count, and the IRS mean AGI for the ZIP.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Shur-Kleen Car Wash 3311 Kitsap Way | Bremerton, WA | Express Tunnel | Shur-Kleen Car Wash | 4.3 | 641 | $81K |
| Burwell 76 2550 Burwell St | Bremerton, WA | In-Bay Automatic | 76 | 4.0 | 509 | $81K |
| Top Notch Tint & Detail + 2132 6th St | Bremerton, WA | Detail Shop | Top Notch Tint & Detail + | 5.0 | 442 | $81K |
| Brown Bear Car Wash 1500 NE Fairgrounds Rd | Bremerton, WA | Express Tunnel | Brown Bear Car Wash | 4.3 | 330 | $79K |
| Brown Bear Car Wash 6301 WA-303 | Bremerton, WA | Express Tunnel | Brown Bear Car Wash | 4.5 | 291 | $79K |
| 76 4650 Werner Rd | Bremerton, WA | In-Bay Automatic | 76 | 4.0 | 268 | $81K |
| 360 Automotive LLC 3476 W Belfair Valley Rd suite B | Bremerton, WA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 30 | $81K |
| West Hills Detail Center 4949 Auto Center Blvd | Bremerton, WA | Detail Shop | — | 4.3 | 20 | $81K |
| All About Detailing 5223 1st St | Bremerton, WA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 12 | $81K |
Data as of 2026-05-22. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Bremerton, WA car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/bremerton-wa
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Car wash inventory for Bremerton, WA is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Bremerton, and further restricted to places whose format the WashIndex LLM classifier identified as a car wash (excluding dealerships, gas stations, and other auto-related businesses that don't primarily operate a car wash). Inclusion in the parent Bremerton MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 508 customer reviews processed through WashIndex's 55-field LLM extraction pipeline. Format classification comes from a separate per-location website-reading classifier. ZIP-level income data is from the IRS Statistics of Income (tax year 2022) — mean Adjusted Gross Income per tax return, which is directionally aligned with ACS median household income but available without authentication.
See our full methodology for the extraction pipeline, validation samples, and aggregation logic. Term definitions in the glossary.
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